The Somerset reporter., 1887-06-01
Strange Uses of Paper.


Waters. Of Lansineburg beaf Troy. New
York. These boat. are uaIe pf an ordl-
nary Manila paper - z8aa quality. u-u-
ally In five tlickne--c-. III all oHiy one
sixteenth Of an inch taieE. except ia
part7 where there j. The reinforcement
Of one or two extra strip 1hc process Of
making them is simple. 4 model of -oft
pine j. made the faIi -lleof the boat. Tho
bow end being u t#p piece which can
BIZ detached. Tie paper i delivered Ia
long rolls the model : turned upside
down un hong ffamc. 9Hc narrow "trip
Of paper aud then 5, cond are Hr-t lai3
On where the kee #oa1 Bc. AMI thon
eue, two three. fa4r Gte sheets are -Gc-
se.-iycly laid along and m5aldcd el9-e ~
Tire model each a. IA j. put Oh Driuz cont
Cd with shellac and VIII zIur - attach
the next sheet closely - il. Thus done
/ up IN paper. the H0dci- arr taken 20 q
/ dr}iug-ro0m. where a Aeai Of about $50
| + continued for HAe dass consolidate
the glued paper INTO ~9lHd ma. Tho
movable pieces II wood - fhc boz"
are uhsercWcd and taken ON and
| with this place for "a start it j. cay 70
! peel the boat of Tie model a. i pearh-
/ skin come, OF a fresh peach i kerl il
NOW fastened inside the boat several OK
ira LAYERS Of -helac are put on outside
diihi b7l'At- q 81 IL u N''J - 4'A-a+ AN go
for "A guuNac and the shell il presently
ready for its iitting~ seats and oHtrI4-
gers They are mostly racing shells
| from singie->culi up 10 Cight oar. But one
boat has been built H. large a. l. fcD'
long By four feet niche. beam. t. bold
| fprly-two persons. this of COURSE. being
stayed by wooden ribs and steam
| launch Is feet Iong. worked bY one
horsepower oil cnauc. boat aud engine
together weighing but 40 pounds. Wa
last fan successfully run al >peed u
about ten miles per hour on the apper
Hudson. The cost j. something above
that of wood. The -iusle->cul.. =. feet
long by .ns nche~ beam. costs ft9m 80
Ia >l0n. thc ci4hf-oarcd shell. ablut 'a
feet lona by ? inches Widc. costs >iuU.
1t is an interesting fact that tHe racing
shells Of Harvard. Yale, and Columbia la
lssG We're all from the >aHe model from
this shop. 80 that the contest " = entire
u one Of skill on even terms
Not only j. travelling by water indc3t-
ed to paper, Tut travelling by land
paper car wheel seems even more con-
tradiction Of terms than a paper boat
yet it Is NOW generally acknowledged 10
he better. safer. and lougcr-lited than
one altogether Of metal. It Wa tho i'll
vention of Richard y. Alien, a loeom9-
tive engineer, afterward ma>ter-me-
chanic Of the Cleveland anil Toledo Rail
road, who took for his aim i'm life the
production of a better car wheel than
those in use His first set Of paper
wheels WAS made ut brandon. erILuuts
in lNt9, and after much scoilins he was
graciou>ly permitted the u>e Of Il wood
ear on tie Central Vermont road. uudcr
which they were tested for siN months.
The Pullman Palace Car Company IN lN1l
gave the first order for hundred " wheels
ten years after the Alien Paper Car
wheel Company, with great shop al iiud-
son, New York, and Pullman, Illinois
/, produced and sold thirteen thousand in a
single year. One OF the set ilrsl eAprrl
mented aith under Il sleeper i shown
at hudson, with "A record Of Bon pel
, miles travel.
, 1t is the body of the wheel only Whcf
i of paper The material l. acaleudcrr,
rye->traW "board 81 thick paper madr at
the Nien t"mpany's Mills at Morris
1 Illinois. This j. sent 10 the works il
y in circular sheets of TWENTY-FIVE Ia forty
+, inches diameter. Two men. staining 'A
] II p lc of these rapidly brush over Gael
; sheet an even caatin9 Of flour la>ie Unit
il Il dozen are pasted into layer. lhlu
man transfers thesc Layers to a hydraulic
pres, where apre>>ure al tive hunlre,
Il tons or more l. applied taa tilc nj lArm
n the layers being kept distinct by tic al
sencc Of paste between tho outer sheets
After solidiiying under thIN pres-nr" iul
. two hours the tWelVe-shect l9Yer> an
n kept for week in IA drying room heated
/ to- 2o +; several of ID - Layers ar i
turn pasted together, pressed AM drir'
T. fer Il second week. aud SILL again ih's'
S disks are pasted pressed and given
third driving Of whole MONTH Ihc re
suit Is eircul,r block, containing from
10 to leo sheets Of the original paper
compressed To = or +. inches thickness
and of S"liditN. density, aul Weigh
suggesting metal rather than i!hre.
The paper wheel Is made ur of TIM
disk OF compressed paper surrounded hA
steel tire. and fitted With CASTRO